Quotes About Independence

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.

A lot of times when you see Bun you don't see me; that's because we have to go our separate directions to promote on our own. When we're separate, we can cover more ground than we can together. That doesn't mean that it's not still UGK for life; we've just figured out ways to promote and cover more ground.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

My father doesn't like to promote me every time, and he wants me to build my own image.

I'm not trying to promote myself. I'm just happy to go about my business.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I'd want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

You go real long in this business, and then you have these light-bulb moments. I just had this fleeting moment of fearlessness and a moment of trust in myself that I'm not going to listen to anyone. I'm going to do it how I want to do it. And how I want to do is what people are going to want to see and promoters want to pay for.

Promoters need you. You don't need them... The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don't know that.

I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.

I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

I'm living proof that you can create your own life.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

I don't want to play a prop in a film.

The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.